Tag: Creepshow

• “Creepshow, 1982”

  “Come on Harry, the maiden fair waits for her knight in shining corduroy.” To mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of my association with Mark Jeacoma and his wonderful VHS Rewind! podcast and blog, I am adding a previous review I wrote for the 1982 horror anthology, Creepshow, and adapting it for this Vintage…

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  October 28, 2015

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  Adrienne Barbeau, anthology, anthology horror, Blissville, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead, Educational Comics, George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, horror, Joe King, Leslie, Mark Jeacoma, Max Gaines, Neilsen, Night of the Living Dead, Stephen King, Tales From The Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, Ted Danson, VHS Rewind

• “Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982”

  “It’s time. It’s time. Time for the big giveaway. Halloween has come. All you lucky kids with Silver Shamrock masks, gather ’round your TV set, put on your masks and watch. All witches, all skeletons, all Jack-O-Lanterns, gather ’round and watch. Watch the magic pumpkin. Watch…” Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982 (Tom Atkins),…

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  October 19, 2015

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  1982, Alan Howarth, androids, big giveaway, Creepshow, Dan O Herlihy, druids, Halloween, Halloween 3, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, harvest season, insects, John Carpenter, masks, pagans, Samhain, scorpions, Scream, Silver Shamrock, snakes, Stacey Nelkin, The Fog, Tom Atkins, Tommy Lee Wallace, William Shatner

• “Nightmares, 1983”

  Cable television was a treasure trove of great horror movies in 1984. You had the old (Psycho, The Birds) and the new (Creepshow, Friday the 13th), something borrowed (Dressed To Kill), and something blue (Jaws 3D – because the water is blue, you see … ahem, moving on!). Occasionally, it can be a crap shoot.…

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  October 14, 2015

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  anthology, Creepshow, Cristina Raines, Darkroom, Duel, Emilio Estevez, Joseph Sargent, Lance Henriksen, Michael Winner, nightmares, Richard Masur, Tales From The Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, The Exorcist, The Sentinel, The Thing, Veronica Cartwright, video games

• Vintage Cable Box: “Swamp Thing”, 1982

  When I started writing reviews for the films which became the basis of this series, the original plan was to start with Rodney Dangerfield’s 1983 comedy, Easy Money, but after Wes Craven died, I thought it would only be fitting to pay tribute to one of my favorite horror film directors by looking back and…

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  September 10, 2015

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  1982, Adrienne Barbeau, comic books, Creepshow, Dick Durock, horror, Louis Jourdan, Ray Wise, Swamp Thing, Wes Craven